Fortunately, a decentralised solution has come forward that will allows epidemiologists and Health Departments to access the data they need.
The effectiveness of such Government strategies as the lockdown can only be assessed after a mass of variables are controlled for.
Often, these are not only hugely inaccurate, but paint a damagingly distorted picture which can influence public opinion and, through doing so, public policy.
Hopefully it will be crisis averted, and we’ll have a bit more time to fix the hole. But sooner or later, difficult choices on tax and spending are coming.
Some regions have already started to ease off lockdown measures. Here are their plans so far:
It should remove those taxes and regulations that will stop business from applying their ingenuity on the problem of rebuilding from the ruins.
In order to render the NHS proof against future pandemics, and resolve the social care crisis, he needs to learn from Beveridge.
The West Germans realised, when they set up their health system, that there had to be an entrenched place for competition between different providers.
A common threat, especially in the form of a pathogen, flicks switches in our brains, making us less tolerant of dissent.
Unless you think the projected caseload was wrong by an order of magnitude, it was the only way to buy time.
Far from being confident, the Hungarian Prime Minister’s recent behaviour demonstrates a man who’s increasingly panicking.
It will take a vast New Deal of actual spending to lift Europe out of Coronavirus slump and head off a deflationary depression.
Britain cannot afford to take so long to incorporate international lessons as the epidemic progresses.
Nation states can act decisively when they wish to do so: the EU seems paralysed.
Figures from national reported statistics suggest that the UK is in the middle of the range – above Germany & America but below Belgium & Spain.